1921.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXV. 109 
graphie Sassanide (Apercu sommaire ; mémoire lu a la section 
Iranienne du Congrés des Orientalistes tenu & Paris en Sep- 
tembre 1897)’; and ‘Les Légendes des Monnaies Sassanides 
in the Revue Archéologique, 1898.’ The first treats of Pahlavi 
numismatics generally and the second gives a bibliography of 
the publications on Sasanian matters, including the coins. . 
This bibliography is almost similar to that given by A. de 
Markoff in his catalogue of Sasanian coins above mentioned. 
In his third paper Drouin gives the amended readings of all 
the Sasanian coin legends. 
E. J. Rapson has described a few Sasanian coins collected 
in Sistan by G. P. Tate of the Sistan Boundary Commission in 
the ‘ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society’ for 1904, pp. 673-86 ~ 
and 1 pl. 
The only other catalogue of Sasinian coins, describing 
about 73 coins in the Indian Museum at Calcutta, is by Vin- 
cent Smith (‘Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, 
Calcutta,’ 1906, Vol. I, pp. 217-229 and pl. XXIV 
The most notable addition in recent years to our know- 
ledge in this branch of Sasanian antiquarian research is the 
essay by J. de Morgan, entitled ‘ Contribution a étude des ate- 
liers monetaires sous la dynastie des Rois Sassanides de Perse 
(Revue Numismatique, 1913). This essay deals entirely with the 
Sasinian mints. De Morgan has thrown fresh and interesting 
light not only on the known mints but also on several hitherto 
unknown mint-monograms. It is a comprehensive work full of 
all the latest researches and reveals a rare and vast knowledge 
of places personally visited and examined. In fine it is a 
scientific exposition not only of the many ambiguous readings 
of the mint-monograms, but also of most of the identifications 
laid down hypothetically by earlier authors. 
A few notes by myself on some rare Sasanian coins will be 
found in the ‘ Numismatic Supplements ’ XXVIII and XXIX to 
the ‘ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ Vol. XIII of 1917 ; 
and N.S. XXX to the J.A.S.B., Vol. XIV of 1918. 
His MS. and plates are almost ready for publication, and his 
material is likely to be more complete than any at the com- 
s. : 
He also informs me that W. H. Valentine has in prepara- 
